Movement-cure appliance



C. P. WINTER. MOVEMENT CURE APPLIANCE.

. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1918. 1,354,865. Patented Oct. 5, 1920'.

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MOVEMENT-CURE APPLIANCE.

Application filed September 5, 1918.

To all to ham it may concern.

Be it known that I, COURTNEY P. WINTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Iolyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Movement-Cure Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates in general to movement cure appliances, and particularly to an appliance which may be used as an abdominal massage to stimulate the action of the large intestine or colon.

As heretofore practised, appliances of this kind have generally involved a more or less complicated arrangement of parts, which notonly incur considerable expense in manufacture, but also, by means of their multiplicity of parts, make it necessary for the user to employ inconvenient methods in deriving the benefits of the appliance.

The present invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and cheap appliance, which will properly produce the same beneficial results as are obtained with appliances of a more complicated c0nstruction.

The preferred method of producing the appliance is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an appliance in use;

Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one form of massaging member; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form of massaging member.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 represents a massaging member which, as illustrated in Fig. 3, comprises a pair of arc-shaped fingers spaced apart by a plate 2. These fingers are formed to correspond to the ascending and descending colon. Their ends are curved inwardly toward each other, which enables that part of the member to act upon the transverse colon. As illustrated in Fig. 4:, the massaging member comprises a solid block or disk 1. In producing the desired results sought to be accomplished by the appliance, it is preferred to impart a wabbling or wave-like motion to the massaging member. It is further desirable that'this wabbling orwave- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Serial No. 252.770.

like motion start at the base of the ascending colon and continue with successive pres sure applied from this point to the base of the descending colon. This means that pressure must be successively transmitted to the outer edge of the fingers 1 or the block 1, and to produce this motion a crank 3 is provided, which crank has a hand grip 4: for effecting the necessary rotation of the crank, and a hand hold 5. for steadying the appliance and producing the necessary thrust on the massaging member 1. Should it be desirable to produce a greater thrust to the massaging memberthan can be imparted by means of the hand of the operator on the hand hold 5, means such as 6 may be employed, which may be used to engage a wall or some other perpendicular structure. The wall engaging means preferably comprises an abutment plate 7, constructed of rubber or some other non-skid material, which is mounted to a bracket 8, said bracket having a collar 9 engaging the crank below the hand hold 5. The crank 3 has a pivoted bearing on the massaging member 1, which bearing comprises a plate 10 having an integral collar 11 screwthreaded on the inside and adapted to re ceive the threaded end of a sleeve 12. The end of the crank 3 is confined in the bearing by means of its head 13 received in the collar 11 and retained therein with freedom of rotation by means of the sleeve 12. An important feature of the invention resides in the peculiar construction of the .crank,- that is to say, the axis of rotation of the crank is oblique to the axis of the bearing. By this arrangement the necessary wabbling or wave-like motion is imparted through the crank to the massaging member. In this connection it is also to be noted that when the appliance is in operation the hand grip 4: is at all times directly over that part of the massaging member which is receiving the greatest amount of pressure. In other words, as the hand grip rotates, the pressure which is imparted to the massaging member likewise successively extends around the edge thereof.

Finally, it will be observed that by this peculiar construction of crank the necessary wabbling or wave-like motion may be produced and transmitted to the massaging member without the necessity of complicated construction of springs, gearing and other elements which have heretofore been necessary.

Claims.

1. In a movement cure appliance, a mas sage plate, and an operating stem connected to the massage plate at one end and to a thrust receiving member at the other end,

the line ofi thrust from said thrust receiving- 7 said second swivel joint being perpendicular to said massage plate, whereby a rotary Wabbling motion. may be imparted to the massage plate without rotating or laterally displacing the same.

2.. In: a movement cure appliance, a massage member comprising a pair of spaced arcuat'e fingers oppositely presented in substantially the same plane.

3. In a movement cure appliance, a massage member and a crank swiveled thereto, the axis of rotation of said crank being oblique to the axis of said swivel, and a shield mounted on said crank adapted to engage a perpendicular structure, whereby increased thrust may be imparted to the massage member, said, shield. having a nonskid bearing surface.

The foregoing specification signed at Holyoke, Mass, this 8th day of July, 1918.

COURTNEY P. WINTER.

In presence of two witnesses:

PALMER,

K. SHEEHAN. 

